Kenna Neitch graduated with an MA in 2016. Her MA thesis "The Nature of Satire: Essentialism,
Gender, and Purpose" won the graduate school's best thesis award in 2016. She is currently
a second year PhD student in the program. Her areas of interest are Central American
literature and Women's Studies.

Nidhi Kaith graduated with an MA in 2016. Her research was in South Asian and African
literatures in the context of revolutionary movements.

MaryAnn Widerburg, second year PhD student, is interested in apost-9/11 Global literature
and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies